Phineas Barnes, Business Insider
“This morning I headed over to BluePrint Health to hang out with some entrepreneurs. It is fair to say I have healthcare on the brain and I am going to write a little bit about why over the next few days.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Anyone with the slightest idea of large-scale software development would have been staggered by the surpassing silliness contained in yesterday’s piece in the Medical Observer, in which “ehealth consultant” David More trots out his analysis of the problem which has brought the desktop software side of the PCEHR project to a temporary halt.
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Zina Moukheiber, Forbes
“The government-mandated push to implement electronic health records is supposed to centralize patient data, and reduce human medical errors in the process. However, EHRs can introduce a different set of errors, namely software glitches.
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Koen Cobbaert, EMDT
“Your phone rings. It’s the authorities. A doctor has reported an adverse incident, and your software was involved. Confusion reigns: Is the software a medical device? Should it have been CE marked? A forthcoming European document will provide guidance.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Thanks to new PC-based software, patients living with cancer can track, organize document, monitor and share information associated with their illness, treatment and recovery.
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Paula Rooney, ZDNet
“Is there a killer in the software code running millions of medical devices? GNOME Executive Director Karen Sandler, formerly of the Software Freedom Law Center, has been fighting to get this software opened up for inspection and review since she received her own implanted defibrillator in 2008.
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Apiscam
“Andalucía exportará su software de simulación 3D a otras unidades de cirugía y más especialidades médicas. La herramienta de realidad virtual VirSSPA, que a partir de ahora se llamará Ayra, ha sido licenciada para su explotación por parte de la empresa Ikiria, que permitirá comercializarlo a otros hospitales y otras clínicas, incluso de otras comunidades y países.
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Guy Boulton, Journal Sentinel
“The information that exists in Medicare billing records, patient registries and electronic health records could help answer one of the most common questions in modern medicine: How well does one treatment work compared with another?
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Marty Briggs, Software Advice
“There has been a steady increase in electronic health record (EHR) software adoption by physicians and hospitals. The value-add is tremendous, and with the government incentives now in place, this growth is a no-brainer. However, Marty Briggs, Creative Director of Marketing for HealthFusion, points out one of the major issues with EHR’s, using a doctor’s visit as an example:
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David E Williams, HealthWorks Collective
“One could imagine applying regulations to a simple calculator app with an algorithm that gives an exact result, but it seems like the proposed regulation also would also apply to diagnostic software that deals with thousands of diseases.
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Borycki EM et al, Patient Safety Informatics - Adverse Drug Events, Human Factors and IT Tools for Patient Medication Safety, 2011
Electronic health records (EHRs) promise to improve and streamline healthcare through electronic entry and retrieval of patient data. Furthermore, based on a number of studies showing their positive benefits, they promise to reduce medical error and make healthcare safer. However, a growing body of literature has clearly documented that if EHRS are not designed properly and with usability as an important goal in their design, rather than reducing error, EHR deployment has the potential to actually increase medical error. In this paper we describe our approach to engineering (and reengineering) EHRs in order to increase their beneficial potential while at the same time improving their safety.
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HealthTech Wire
“In this industry leader session organised by Microsoft, the enormous interest in the topic by the healthcare sector was shown by the packed audience that required extra seating to fulfil demand for places, Dr Bill Crounse, Senior Director for Worldwide Health at Microsoft, shared his personal perspective on the global, business, population and technology trends impacting the delivery of health information and medical services.
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Technology for Doctors Online
“New technology developed by an Ottawa doctor will shield the privacy of patients by making their records anonymous while opening up their medical histories to researchers. Dr. Khaled El Emam (pictured), who is Canada Research Chair for electronic health information at the University of Ottawa, has built software that puts parameters on any information that could identify a patient.
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Donald Burt, KevinMD
“Many hospital CIOs face an uphill battle winning the hearts, minds and fingers of physicians. It’s not because doctors are technology phobic. Quite the opposite: physicians are some of the most ravenous consumers of new information technology. Smartphones and tablets are becoming as ubiquitous as stethoscopes at many hospitals.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“According to a survey of IT managers at health delivery organizations, 51% of respondents said they don’t protect patient data used in software development and testing.
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Pagliari C. J Med Internet Res, 9(2)
Much has been written about insufficient user involvement in the design of eHealth applications, the lack of evidence demonstrating impact, and the difficulties these bring for adoption. Part of the problem lies in the differing languages, cultures, motives, and operational constraints of producers and evaluators of eHealth systems and services. This paper reflects on the benefits of and barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration in eHealth, focusing particularly on the relationship between software developers and health services researchers.
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Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“Billions of dollars are being squandered in Canadian purchasing of health software for reasons of industrial policy, which is leading to disastrous technical problems and vast overpayments to technology companies and consultants, critics say.
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Mathe J et al, Methods of Information in Medicine, 47(5)
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The goal of this research is to provide a framework to enable the model-based development, simulation, and deployment of clinical information system prototypes with mechanisms that enforce security and privacy policies.
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GLGroup
“The FDA asserts its authority to regulate medical software as a “device” following some bad patient care outcomes in the radiation therapy, radiology, and other arenas.
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jpantuso, Ignite
“As a cancer patient for the past three years, Rick watched several doctor’s offices try to incorporate technology into their offices. As a software engineer on haitus, he is embarrassed to share the same title as the people building these horrible systems. In this presentation, he presents evidence that computers and poorly written medical software negatively impact patient care and shows how the current approach is wrong and not meeting the expectations of doctors and patients.”
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